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Lessons From the Pearl Murder

Ras Siddiqui February 22, 2002

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#299 Posted by mumbaikar on October 1, 2003 12:36:28 pm
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#298 Posted by harimau on March 10, 2002 11:19:33 am
Ref anNy #: 306

[harimau!

oh dear :( my apologies if i made a boo boo]

Not at all. I was just pulling your leg a bit... no, not the part about snakes being gods. The cobra is worshipped as a god and of course that gives rise to fanciful legends and even more fanciful Bollywood movies such as Nagin.

But I felt that I will make YLH`s day (probably, century, why just a day?) if I came ho his aid once. He will now come to my aid when I am in dire need of it and am under attack by the Headshrinker or The Tamil Rapist.

PS. Well, that part about all snakes being gods is not quite true; just King Cobras. Your ordinary rattler, sidewinder, watersnake or black mamba don`t qualify for membership in the Pantheon.



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#297 Posted by anNy on March 8, 2002 1:35:54 pm
harimau!

oh dear :( my apologies if i made a boo boo

tahmedsaab

you rool :)



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#296 Posted by ylh on March 7, 2002 9:24:51 pm


Maybe you should go to Kashmir and visit the shrine of `Amir Kabir Ali Wali Hamdani` to find out more about the Hamdani family... oh I forgot you Indians burnt it down.



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#295 Posted by harimau on March 7, 2002 9:24:51 pm
Ref anNy #: 264

[how much sense can a persons opinion make when he repeatedly calls anothers god a snake...]

anNy! (I am trying to say that with as much severity as I can muster on an impersonal medium like the Internet.)

Hindus do worship snakes. Thus all snakes are gods but all gods are not snakes.



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#294 Posted by ali2 on March 7, 2002 12:37:07 pm
Thanks for the info YLH.

Can you also tell me, when the great Hamdani dynasty moved to Pakistan .. and did they have any problems settling with the uncouth Paki natives.

Thanks!



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#293 Posted by ylh on March 7, 2002 12:37:07 pm


For Tahmed:

Discussion on Lineages:

1) I didn`t bring it up. I find the discussion of my lineage an unnecessary discussion. It was brought up in connection to the discussion of lineages of the South Asian Muslims a few months ago. Here as you can see, it was your Buddy Rsaxena.

2) I always said that I don`t care one way or the other. But you keep lecturing me on how it doesn`t matter in Islam. Why do you keep lecturing me eventhough I have said it myself even before you decided to deliver your self righteous babble?

3) I find it rather odd that you can view with skepticism one claim (though an unnecessary and useless discussion) while believing that Quran revealed 14 centuries ago hasn`t been changed even 0.01%. If there were authorities that could verify the Quran`s authenticity , there were also authorities that verified lineages. How else can we trace Muhammad`s Lineage right upto Ismail? Or do you not believe in that? Then surely you shouldn`t believe in a Book either.

So you see none of your logic makes sense, and makes me conclude that you are an obsessed senile old man with nothing better to do but to bother me.



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#292 Posted by ylh on March 6, 2002 7:39:06 pm


More on the Iranian question: A reading of Islamic History will show that the persecution of the `Alids` by Ummayad Dynasty drove them to Persia especially the area around Iran.

Ofcourse people like Rsaxena never read History.



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#291 Posted by ylh on March 6, 2002 3:44:47 pm


Now to the second part of your argument.

Let me restate My original Premise ONCE MORE. Like I HAVE SAID BEFORE ... I AM NOT SPECIAL BECAUSE MY MOTHER IS THE DIRECT DESCENDANT OF THE HOLY PROPHET.

NOW COMING TO YOUR OBJECTION TO MY BELIEVING AS SUCH. I know it for a fact, because there is a famous book called `Salar-e-ajam` published by Ferozesons, in conjunction with the famous Shah e Hamadan conference in Azad Kashmir.

The Book published by independent authorities has the `family trees` in the End. If you open to the page on `Jalalpur Syeda Hamdania` you will find my mother`s name `Dr.Durr-e-Shahwar Hamdani`at the bottom. Given that the entire Alid Family had hidden in Iran lends more credence to the claim of the Hamdani syeds which is proven by that Book.

The fact is that I don`t care one way or the other, but I am sure as hell not going to lie just to please you. So think what you want to.

SO ONCE AGAIN: I DON`T CARE IF MY ANCESTOR WAS MUHAMMAD, ZEUS, OR SOME UNKNOWN INDIAN PEASANT. I AM YASSER LATIF HAMDANI, A PAKISTANI AND A HUMAN BEING!



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#290 Posted by ylh on March 6, 2002 3:44:47 pm


Tahmed,

When and where did Aisha say that? How can you infer that. When where did she say I was better than you because I was the descendant of Muhammad.

So the fact is that you are accusing her unnecessarily because I think you are possibly a senile old man.

The fact is that you babble needlessly and self righteously, a psychological need I am sorry I don`t understand.

1) I never claimed I was special. Infact I made it very clear that I was not! You infact copied right out of my post when you said `that the son of a non muslim sweeper is equal in the eyes of God to the first born of Muhammad`.

2) People in the subcontinent have had a great affiliation to the Syeds, something which I find distasteful and an indication of the cultural lag which the Muslim World finds itself in.

So please keep your self righteous babble to yourself.

Thankyou.



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#289 Posted by tahmed321 on March 6, 2002 2:09:03 pm
ylh #294 Whether or not it matters to you is a separate question. You do consider it a fact (as you restate in your latest post) that your mother is a descendent of the prophet. I am saying that more likely someone along the way (say in the 14th century or 12th century or 18th century or whenever) decided that it would be cool to claim such descent. I dont think I am picking on you when I raise this point, I am just challenging you to be objective and look at the numbers of Syeds and Hashmis and others roaming around the muslim world and tell me why 99% of them have to be fakes.

And even if 1% of them are genuine inheritors of the prophets genes, so what??

I am sorry to seem like I am picking on you.

Sarwari: I am sure ylh is better than me in many ways. But please dont tell me that one of these ways is that he is a descendant of muhammed and I am not. Even a non-muslim sweeper in the worst slums of Bombay is equal before the eyes of God to the first born of muhammed. If this sounds strange to you, go back and re-read the Quran.



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#288 Posted by ali2 on March 5, 2002 11:05:21 pm
YLH .. why are you denying me my identity as Ali2. Have I ever denied Pakistans identity? ..Is there no justice in this world?

ME thinks you and your silly mutual admirer should get married and spare us your bs.



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#287 Posted by Aisha_Sarwari on March 5, 2002 10:30:10 pm
tahmed321

Mind explaining where YLH is claiming that he is `special` because of his lineage to the Holy Prophet. One must ponder why all of you gang up on him. It is quite apparent that he is better than you.

Aisha



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#286 Posted by ylh on March 5, 2002 10:30:10 pm


tahmed,

Go back and read my post. And then tell me did I deserve this self righteous babble from you? Is it that you give lectures because you love to pick on me!



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#285 Posted by ylh on March 5, 2002 10:30:10 pm
tahmed:

You have to be kidding me... You have to be. Did you or did you not read the Post. Which part of ..

`Ofcourse, I still don`t understand the relevance, especially since I had mentioned this little fact in relation to the debate on heritages, and how evil we Pakistanis are for claiming to be of foreign descent, especially since most Pakistanis have domestic Rajput and Jat surnames.`

and

``The debate on lineages is stupid ... but by the same token it is a fact that Middle Eastern especially classical Islamic scholarship was obsessed family Lineages to trace the accuracy of the transmission of Islamic Law. So if I have said something like that, it is because its a fact and not because I am unnecessarily proud of my relation to a man who claimed to receive divine revelation rightly or wrongly.``

...DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? DID I REALLY DESERVE THAT FRIGGIN LECTURE FROM YOU ... I WANT AN APOLOGY IMMEDIATELY!

For god`s sake tahmed... I have already said what you are saying. I am not the one who brought it up... and no, It is a fact that my mother is descendant from the Prophet.. does it matter to me? NO! Do I care? NO! Then please give you self righteous blabbering a little rest.





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#284 Posted by tahmed321 on March 5, 2002 8:29:43 pm
ylh #289 ``my mother is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and her family tree has been authenticated by a few dozen authorities in this regard.`` I never thought I would run into someone who actually takes this bs seriously. EVEN if you were the direct descendant of the prophet (along with a zillion other Syeds roaming around every corner of the muslim world), so bloody what? This kind of thinking is the very antithesis of Islam. And what about your other hundreds of ancestors overs the past 1400 years who have nothing to do with Muhammed? Are they not good enough to have THEIR names used? The fact, my friend is, that you are displaying the same shallow arrogance that zillions of other primitive people in the subcontinent and elsewhere in the muslim world who think they are Syeds or Hashmis or whatnot as well those who worship them accordingly. Next time you have this urge to demonstrate your lineage, remember this: A son of a sudra who converts to Islam is equal before the eyes of God to the son of Muhammed.



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